Why don't we bud out of foreign wars?

Question

"America is a nation founded on the principle that all human life is sacred .....
Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical."- GW Bush
on the occasion of vetoing Congressional bill on stem cell research.. June 20, 2007


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"What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction
is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
Mahatma Gandhi


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"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." Arabic Proverb

Anti-isolationism without hypocracy? Impossible.

"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the
most rascally individuals of mankind." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)


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"Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common
good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential
to the preservation of the nation." -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U.
S. Supreme Court Justice Source: We, The Judges, 1956

It would be nice to simply preemptively anilhate any people looking dangerous, Justin Case. May be we should wait until somebody cries for help, then sign them to a contract charging ten times cost. Of course the loser pays anyway.

Saddams attack on Kuait was criminal as was his gasing the Kurds. He was due for the gallows in 1992. The second assault on Iraq was based on garbage and paranoia. Religion.

Answer 1

If this answer looks long to you
1. Imagine how long this war looks to the Iraqi people and to U.S. soldiers!
2. Forget reading what I'm saying and go right now to right here to see a preview of NO END IN SIGHT: http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/

We did not "butt in" to a foreign war.

Nor is it our job, or any nation's job to POLICE the world; that behavior begets what we have begotten, flagrant imperialism, blood for oil. (And who is to say what other nations will up and decide to start wars in the name of policing others? It's ludicrous. We defied the UN!)

Does anyone answering here have any idea how many people in the U.S. die daily, because of poverty, lack of insurance, lack of jobs, the profiteering of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as others, the lack of regulation of foods and cars and anything that requires safety? Why?

Republicans favor corporations, big business and that kills unions and it causes dangerouos, wanton, promiscuous DE-REGULATION!

The Iraq war is about business; it has absolutely NOTHING to do with terrorism.

This is not about isolationism. (Furthermore, for those of you under the age of 18: Before the Bushes, Democrats were the ones to have gotten us into war, as in did you ever hear of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henry Truman, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson? Republicans have until now stood for status quo and that means isolationism.)

This president is a reckless imperialist.
The war in Iraq has absolutely nothing to do with either
1. protecting the American people, or
2. assisting other countries from wanton invasion and world domination. Those are the only causes for going to war. Note that even in WWII, we did not go to fight Hitler, until WE were bombed at Pearl Harbor!)

Hear ye, hear ye! There WAS NO WAR into which The United States butted. We CREATED the WAR.

We defied the Geneva Convention and all International laws. Why? We created a war! WE MADE THE PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE. WE ARE THE AGGRESSOR!

We didn't JOIN a war in which a Hitler was trying to take over the world. We didn't join a war in which there was even Civil War, and one side ASKED for our help.

We STARTED THIS WAR. That has NOTHING TO DO WITH OR WITHOUT ISOLATIONISM. IT IS AGGRESSION!

Trying to POLICE the world has done nothing more than to have cost us our own civil rights and freedoms, and the world's security. The world is a far more unsafe place, BECAUSE of this war in Iraq!

The United States is responsible for the deaths of 200 Iraqi people a day; that's well over 10x the amount killed under Sadam Hussein--not that that was our business; there are laws for these kinds of thing--SANCTIONS!

This was not a war about democracy or wrong-doing. This is a war that we created for the sake of OIL and the EGO of an ego-maniac, who's not even a Republican, because he is ABOVE all of that; he is above the law; he is above the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES.

He is King George W!

We are the aggressors in this war, and that is not acceptable.

I am so angry at the ignorance of some of these answers, but more than angry, I am frightened. I almost can't write.

Instead, I shall refer the question to three videos and one article on the following sites for people here to learn and to see what the war in Iraq is really about.

After viewing and after reading, then let the discussion begin:
http://www.noendinsightmovie.com:80/
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072007A.shtml
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20070730&s=truthdig

And for those of you, who have a personal investment in liking our ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein, how do you justify, if not blood for oil, our not going into all the wars, the genocide in Sub-Saharan Africa, huh? Shouldn't we be policing those brutal wars? NO MONEY IN IT!!!!

THIS PRESIDENT, AMONG A MILLION OTHER HEINOUS ATROCITIES HAS COMPLETELY JEOPARDIZED THE STABILITY OF THE MIDDLE EAST, and watch! Watch to see what the retaliation will be. It won't be pretty; it's already heinously, horrifically, miserably ugly.

Answer 2

In my opinion, we have not engaged in a justifiable war since WWII. I was recently told by an intelligent friend of mine, that the U.S. no longer has the will to win a war. I replied, and believe, that we do have the will to win a war that is worthwhile, but that we lack the good sense to not engage in a war that is not worthwhile.
This war we are in now, in Iraq, is not a war we should have ever fought. Say what you will, Saddam did not have weapons of "mass destruction" he was not in cahoots with Al Quedae. It was purely a war of choice,that was planned long before 9/11. The intended result was much different from what happened. It was supposed to "democratize" the middle east and make Israels safer. It has done no such thing.

Answer 3

I would have thought if we went to war all residents belonging to the country we are at war with would be either put out of Britain or be locked up, that's what the did to the Italians in the second world war. If they brought back conscription and an immigrant had British status then it would only be right for them to be conscripted as well.

Answer 4

This is not a hope of saving human life, like using fetal stem cells, it was a certainty of saving of human life by removing a monster dictator and his psychopathic sons.

It doesn't matter to the homeless and they have chosen that it not matter. They are not involved with determining how the world is run nor should their concerns dictate foreign policy.

We are walking the path of truth. The fear that is the fear of the vast majority of Arabs in Iraq have is that the gutless cowards who preach defeat will abandon them to their enemies.

Answer 5

The Americans tried that in WWI and II. They didn't want anything to do with European wars anymore.

But what happens is, those wars can escalate and we are forced to realize that the world isn't as big as we thought and hiding in a corner hoping trouble will just go away just doesn't work.

Ostriches don't really stick their heads in sand, we shouldn't either.

Answer 6

I can't remember who said it but it goes like we shouldn't be in bad alliances and be economic friendly with all. If we did this we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

I think we bud in foreign wars because its an overall need to be in control at all time. We are the only super power.

Answer 7

Dale Earnhart Jr is "Budding Out"..next year by going over to SONY

ask that moron above how many wars were started by Repubs and how many by Dems??..Lincoln...Bush..and who?? was Teddy a Bull Moose or repub?

then tell Jose to go back to Mexico

Answer 8

amen to that , we have enough war here in the usa to keep us busy we dont need no more problems then what we already got here

Answer 9

As a liberal republican, I see that the war is not working. The US army should have the authority to shoot anyone suspected or looking like a terrorist.

Answer 10

oh yea, isolationism is the key!- you must not study history too much